Where the BioBus is at home.

The Martinshof was founded in 1984 by Klaus Ott—who was already retired at the time (and Monika Kempf’s father)—and Gerhard Kempf, a young agricultural student.

They wanted to transform the existing hobby sheep farm in the idyllic Ostertal valley into a Bioland mixed farm with cows, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, and geese. The initial 15 hectares of farmland were expanded to include meadows and arable land. A vegetable-growing operation with two greenhouses was also added.

Today, some 40 years later, the farm specializes in dairy goats and grain cultivation.

The farm’s own goat dairy produces fresh milk, yogurt, quark, and cream cheese. As one of the first Bioland-certified butcher shops in the Saarland, the farm produces sausages, ham, and fresh cuts of lamb, beef, pork, game, veal, and poultry.

In 2007, the Martinshof was awarded first prize in the “Organic Farming Promotion Award” by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection as an exemplary organic farm.

Today, approximately 40 people work on the farm every day. They produce, package, pick orders, and deliver Martinshof products via the BioBus as far as Luxembourg, neighboring France, and Rhineland-Palatinate.

A film by the St.Wendeler Landjugend, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary in May 2016
 

The goats on our farm